Apple does some of its own R&D in California and Asia meaning people getting paychecks signed by Apple’s gay maestro Tim Cook. The Taiwanese do most of it plus the engineering. My educated guess is Apple does 30% of its R&D and engineering in house while 70% is done by planetary microcircuit geniuses the Taiwanese. That 70% is farmed out to various Taiwan firms with Foxcomm being the largest particpant
Production is done in Mainland China in the Foxconn factory. Foxconn is a Taiwanese outfit with plants in Communist China. The brain work is done in Taiwan
Foxconn designs nothing, Dennis. They are a contract manufacturing company with massive capacity. The rest of your comment is just more of your BS, Dennis. Why not provide some PROOF! You have none.
We are STILL WAITING FOR YOUR 2008 PREDICTIONS ABOUT APPLE STOCK TO DROP LIKE A STONE FROM $100 A SHARE!
Apple has the PATENTS (29 more granted today, utility patents for real inventions in tech fields), the designs (many more design patents), and Apple drives the industry, not the other way around. Apple does not copy the Taiwanese and Korean makers' lead. If they did, the Taiwanese and Korean and Chinese would be the making top selling devices, not Apple. Apple would be making the copies, not defining the market.